Estimating the mean of high valued observations in high dimensions

Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 408-418

  Greenshtein, Eitan ^a   Park, Junyong ^b   Ritov, Ya’Acov ^c  

^a Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute USA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Empirical Bayes; FDR; Sparse vector

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008827350     PISSN: 15598608     EISSN: 15598616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15598608.2008.10411883     Document Type: Article

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